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#GRAME was involved in the organization of the #LAC25 concerts. At the last #LeSucre location, I got a bit more involved through lovely people working at GRAME (e.g. in the accounting department) 😊.

One conversation was quite profound and I appreciate the #openness and #commitment of the lovely interviewee. 🤗 Unfortunately, she accidentally gave me her number with a leading zero and my German phone sent my messages to the wrong person. 😫 I only realized this when I got back home yesterday.

Hopefully there will be another chance to get to know each other on a more non-work related basis. 🙃 You always meet twice in life.

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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand

There is a certain amount of kindness, just as there is a certain amount of light … We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine

E.M. Forster, A Room With A View, Pg 152

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUDVUZZyA0M

From Ulrich Baer’s collection of Rilke’s letters loc 673:

There is only a single, urgent task: to attach oneself someplace to nature, to that which is strong, striving and bright with unreserved readiness, and then to move forward in one’s efforts without any calculation or guile, even when engaged in the most trivial and mundane activities. Each time we thus reach out with joy, each time we cast our view toward distances that have not yet been touched, we transform not only the present moment and the one following but also alter the past within us, weave it into the pattern of our existence, and dissolve the foreign body of pain whose exact composition we ultimately do not know.

From James Baldwin’s final essay in Nothing Personal:

One discovers the light in darkness, that is what darkness is for; but everything in our lives depends on how we bear the light. It is necessary, while in darkness, to know that there is a light somewhere, to know that in oneself, waiting to be found, there is a light. What the light reveals is danger, and what it demands is faith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf_zVzvYWuw

I am transforming
I am vibrating
Look at me now

We are a people of principle and honor...

This wonderful full-page ad is running in newspapers today. I clipped this one from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

THIS is the USA that I am proud to be a citizen of.

It was paid for by Christy Walton, widow of one of Sam Walton's sons.

❓ Cosima, wofür steht das ACT in #ImpACTfulMindSkills?

Diese Frage kam direkt, als ich einen Namen für mein neues, deutschsprachiges Angebot suchte und Kolleg*innen um ihre Einschätzung bat.

ACT steht für #Acceptance and #Commitment Therapy oder Training (Akzeptanz- und Commitment Training (ACT).

Ursprünglich eingesetzt im Therapiebereich, hat ACT inzwischen auch einen festen Platz im Präventionsbereich, im Business in der Persönlichkeitsweiterentwicklung.

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Looking to work for Kamala Harris’ campaign? Job applicants can now select from over 9 #pronoun options.

#Traditional #pronouns like "#he/#him" and "#she/#her" are available, alongside other choices such as "#they/#them," "#xe/#xem," "#ze/#hir," and more. Applicants can even specify #custom pronouns or be referred to by #name only, reflecting the #campaign's #commitment to #inclusivity.

christianpost.com/news/kamala-

The Christian Post · Want to work for Kamala Harris’ campaign? Job applicants have 9 pronoun choicesBy Anugrah Kumar
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“I joined this fight like an idiot… And do you know why? I wanted the girl, sobbing with gratitude, to kiss her saviour on the hands, and her father to thank me on his knees. In reality her father fled with his attackers, and the girl, drenched in the bald man’s blood, threw up, became hysterical and fainted in fear…”

Said the hero in "The Last Wish" by Andrzej Sapkowski